For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

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WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to ...

Wildlife in the heart of the Congo Basin, an area that stretches from ... “Cameroon has little area available for agricultural expansion outside forests,” Marieke Sassen, a co-author of ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

A new study reveals that peatlands—a vital carbon store that many people have never heard of—are dangerously under-protected, ...

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

Mt Kilimanjaro, the Rwenzori Mountains and Mt Kenya are Africa’s three highest points. Here’s how to stand atop the world’s wildest land.

Now that the Democrats have lost their lock grip on power, what’s a green activist to do? It’s almost comical how the climate ...

The U.N. children’s fund on Thursday accused armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping ...

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province ... What was once a lush forest sheltering endangered wildlife is now dominated by Kimia Mining Investment's industrial complex, complete ...